Tex-Mex Beef & Black Bean Rice Bowls
with Lettuce, Tomato & Scallion Crema
- Milk
We love to end a day with a hearty meal that balances delicious flavors and enticing textures. This dish is everything you love about the inside of a burrito piled high into one satisfying bowl. You’ll sauté ground beef with aromatic scallions, garlic, and cumin, then serve over fluffy rice and hearty black beans topped with a salad of crisp lettuce, juicy tomato, and a dollop of scallion crema for cooling creamy contrast.
Ingredients
1.5 tablespoon
Sour Cream
(Contains: Milk)
½ unit
Baby Lettuce
1 teaspoon
Cumin
10 ounce
Ground Beef
1 unit
Black Beans
1 unit
Tomato
1 clove
Garlic
2 unit
Scallions
¾ cup
Jasmine Rice
Not included in your delivery
teaspoon (tsp)
Salt
1 teaspoon (tsp)
Cooking Oil
teaspoon (tsp)
Black Pepper
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
In a small pot, combine rice, ¾ cup water (1½ cups for 4 servings), and a pinch of salt. Bring to a boil, then cover and reduce to a low simmer. Cook for 10 minutes.
Drain beans.
Once rice has cooked 10 minutes, stir in drained beans; cover and cook until rice is tender, 5-8 minutes more.
While rice and beans cook, wash and dry produce.
Trim and thinly slice scallions, separating whites from greens. Peel and mince or grate garlic. Trim and discard root end from lettuce; thinly slice half the lettuce (all for 4 servings) crosswise into ribbons. Dice tomato into ¼-inch pieces; season with salt and pepper.
Heat a drizzle of oil in a large pan over medium-high heat. Add beef*, scallion whites, garlic, cumin, salt, and pepper.
Cook, breaking up meat into pieces, until cooked through, 4-6 minutes. Taste and season with salt and pepper if desired.
Keep covered off heat until ready to serve.
In a small bowl, combine sour cream and scallion greens. Add water 1 tsp at a time until mixture reaches a drizzling consistency. Season with salt and pepper.
Fluff rice and beans with a fork; taste and season with salt and pepper.
Divide rice and beans and beef mixture between shallow bowls in separate sections. Top everything with sliced lettuce, tomato, and scallion crema. Serve.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Feb 2026- Flavor: Many found it bland, suggesting more seasoning for the beef and rice; some added salsa or hot sauce for extra kick 🌶️.
- Ease of prep: Quick and easy to make, with simple instructions that even beginners could follow.
- Suggestions: Consider adding taco seasoning, lime juice, or cilantro; some recommend including cheese or guacamole for more flavor.
- Portions: Generous servings that often provided leftovers; a few felt there was too much rice and beans.
- Texture: Some found the rice and beans mixture too mushy; adding tortilla chips improved crunch for some.
Reviews from our home cooks
When you read Tex-Mex, you think more seasoning than cumin, onion and garlic. Was very surprised on how much seasoning was missing in this dish. We ended up pouring salsa in it to give it some flavor. I did love how easy and quick it was to make. Also loved the beans with the rice. Just needs more seasoning!
The cook on the rice and black beans is not correct. The rice was still way under done, water needed to be added and the beans stuck to the bottom. Would be better if the two were cooked separate. A beginning cook would not know what to do.
Easy and so good! I really like the Tex-Mex recipes.
Ticks all the boxes, easy and fun to make, lots of color and flavor, good for everybody. I liked mixing the beans and rice together; taco in a bowl. I used the extra lettuce for a quick salad the next day.
I added sautéed onion, used riced cauliflower instead of rice, mixed it all together with the diced tomato, didn't use the lettuce at all, and it was pretty good. It didn't make sense to have the meat separate from the rice cauliflower/bean mixture.
Was very good. Would like to see more rice bowl dishes like this. There is a Greek one I make with ground chicken, basmati rice, garbanzo beans, tomato, cucumber, pita chips.
Kind of bland for Tex mex. Maybe a little more spice or side of salsa or...?
Scallion crema was great, the rest of the dish was somewhat bland
A nice change - but rice/bean combo was a bit bland - could have had more seasonings other than salt and pepper
Needs a little more flavor. Especially in the rice and beans mixture
